sacrifice

noun

1 initiation ceremonies include the sacrifice of animals:

ritual slaughter, hecatomb, immolation, offering, oblation;

self-sacrifice, self-immolation.

2 Abraham set out to offer Isaac as a sacrifice:

(votive) offering, gift, oblation, victim, burnt offering.

3 the agreement has been achieved without any sacrifice of sovereignty:

giving up, abandonment, surrender, foregoing, renouncing, renunciation, renouncement, forfeiture, loss, relinquishment, resignation, abdication, signing away, yielding, ceding, waiving.

4 many parents make sacrifices to send their children to independent schools:

renunciation, relinquishment, loss, self-sacrifice;

sacrifice something, give up things.

verb

1 an ox and two goats were sacrificed:

offer up, immolate, slaughter.

2 he hadn't sacrificed his humanitarian principles:

give up, abandon, surrender, forgo, renounce, forfeit, relinquish, resign, abdicate, sign away, yield, cede, waive;

prostitute, betray.